100 Great Symphonies – Box Set 56CDs

12 Monday Dec 2016

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Arvo Pärt, Bach CPE, Bach JC, Barber, Beethoven, Berio, Berlioz, Bernstein, Borodin, Brahms, Britten, Bruckner, Cesar Franck, Copland, Dittersdorf, Dvorak, Elgar, Franz Schmidt, Gorecki, Haydn, Hindemith, Honegger, Ives, Liszt, Lutosławski, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Mozart, Nielsen, Philip Glass, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, Roussel, Saint-Saëns, Sammartini, Schoenberg, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Webern

Label : DG
Format : Flac track
Cover : Yes

A SYMPHONY EDITION CHOSEN BY POPULAR VOTE: Deutsche Grammophon rolls out a cornucopia of great symphonic music, chosen by the people – all the symphonies you’ll ever need in a compact cube, at a great price!

THE VOTE: To arrive at 100 Great Symphonies, we put the question to the vote (as with the successful Berlin Philharmonic set in 2013), asking our faithful public: What are your favourite symphonies? Over 2,300 people responded, casting over 8,000 votes altogether. We have made the top 50 symphonies in the voter charts the backbone of this set. The vote has produced the core of the box, with cycles by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, and major contributions from Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich.

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Pierre Boulez – Complete Columbia Album Collection – Box Set 67CDs

04 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, Sony

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Bartok, Beethoven, Berg, Berio, Berlioz, Boulez, Debussy, Dukas, Elliott Carter, Handel, Mahler, Messiaen, Ravel, Roussel, Schoenberg, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Varese, Wagner, Webern

Label : Sony
Format : Flac track
Cover : No

Sony Classical is delighted to announce an unprecedented reissue of the recordings made by Pierre Boulez for CBS/American Columbia. They are all being issued together for the first time in a single Sony Classical box set of 67 CDs. Every recording comes from the best source; several have been newly remastered from the original analogue tapes, such as Bergs Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4 (1967), Seven Early Songs (1972) and Carter’s A Mirror On Which To Dwell.

One of the towering figures of modern music, Boulez began his conducting career in 1958 in Baden-Baden, Germany. His remarkable achievements in Europe brought him to the attention of George Szell, who invited him to make his US debut in 1965 with the Cleveland Orchestra. Boulez went on to serve in Cleveland as principal guest conductor and musical advisor from 1967 until 1972, and has maintained close ties to that elite ensemble ever since. In 1971, he became chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, and the same year he succeeded Leonard Bernstein as music director of the New York Philharmonic, holding that illustrious position until 1977.

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